Torah Study Date Saturday, January 7, 2023 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 49:29-50:14 Next Session Saturday, January 14, 2023 Starting at Genesis 50:15 Last week we discussed the death of Jacob. We noted the emphasis on being gathered: Jacob says he is being gathered to his people; the text says that when he finished speaking, he […]
Jacob and Joseph Reunite
Torah Study Date Saturday, September 10, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 46:8-47:1 Next Session Saturday, October 1, 2022 Starting at Genesis 47:2 Last week we discussed the list of names of the Israelites who went to Egypt with Jacob: the sons of Jacob and Leah: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon as well as […]
The Brothers Go to Egypt
Torah Study Date Saturday, June 25, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 41:57-42:17 Next Session Saturday, July 2, 2022 Starting at Genesis 42:18 Last week we discussed all the earth coming to buy from Joseph since the famine was strong in all the earth (and that “all the earth” probably meant the whole Fertile Crescent). Then […]
Jacob Favors Joseph
Torah Study Date Saturday, March 12, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 37:1-5 Next Session Saturday, March 19, 2022 Starting at Genesis 37:6 Last week we discussed the fact that, though the text indicates we are going to hear the line of Jacob (after having heard the line of Esau in chapter 36), we do not […]
Hamor’s Offer to Jacob
Torah Study Date Saturday, February 5, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 34:3-34:11 Next Session Saturday, February 12, 2022 Starting at Genesis 34:12 Last week we discussed Shechem cleaving to and loving Dinah and wondered what that meant (was he attracted to her? In love with her? desirous of a connection with her—or with her people?). […]
Jacob and Esau Kiss
Torah Study Date Saturday, January 22, 2022 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 33:1-9 Next Session Saturday, January 29, 2022 Starting at Genesis 33:10 Last week we discussed Jacob seeing Esau coming with 400 men and then dividing the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maids. We wondered if that was tantamount to using them as […]
Leaving Lavan
Torah Study Date Saturday, December 11, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 31:4 – 31:29 Next Session Saturday, December 18, 2021 Starting at Genesis 31:30 Last week, we discussed Jacob calling Rachel and Leah to the field and telling them that, seeing their father, Lavan’s face, and that he was not like he had been before, […]
Jacob’s Payback Scheme
Torah Study Date Saturday, December 4, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 30:33-31:3 Next Session Saturday, December 11, 2021 Starting at Genesis 31:4 Last week we continued to discuss Jacob’s scheme for ensuring that he gets the pay he deserves from Laban, the speckled-and-spotted-goat/brown-lamb scheme, in which he would only keep the latter from among the […]
Children Born and a Wage Strategized
Torah Study Date Saturday, November 20, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 30:17-30:32 Next Session Saturday, December 4, 2021 Starting at Genesis 30:33 Last session we discussed God hearing Leah, Leah conceiving, bearing and naming fifth and sixth sons, Issachar because God rewarded Leah and Zebulun because God gave her a choice gift and her husband […]
Leah and Rachel Make a Deal
Torah Study Date Saturday, Novemberr 13, 2021 Verses Covered Bereishit (Genesis) 29:34-30:16 Next Session Saturday, November 20, 2021 Starting at Genesis 30:17 Last week we discussed Leah having a third and fourth son and that her hopes seem to be declining, that she names the third Levi because now Jacob will become attached to her […]
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